I'm all for it, because modern reactors are clean, safe, and efficient, and honestly it's the only real alternative to fossil fuels for wide-scale power generation (fun fact: coal power plants actually realease more radiation into the environment than nuclear plants, due to the uranium in the coal deposits), and the fears of meltdown are greatly overblown for modern reactor designs. What the greens who constantly lobby against nuclear power don't seem to realize is that all their efforts result in is the construction of more fossil-fuel plants. I'm all for the use of alternate sources like wind, solar, tidal etc, where they're applicable, but the output from thes is limited and unpredictable, so I have no illusions that they can replace fossil fuels for widescale generation. As for nuclear waste disposal, that can be greatly reduced if spent reactor fuel is reprocessed into more fuel, which would also help conserve uranium supplies.
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